TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Julia Wilburn on Jul 7, 2026

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Boston recently barred most of President Donald Trump's first elections executive order, converting a year-old preliminary injunction into a permanent ban. The Tennessee Ledger reports that Casper ruled that Trump's order — which sought to require documentary proof of citizenship for voter registration, reject late-arriving mail ballots and withhold federal funds from noncompliant states — violated the separation of powers, since the Constitution grants states and Congress, not the president, authority over elections. The president has since signed a second elections order pushing a national voter list and mail-ballot restrictions, and is lobbying Congress to pass citizenship-verification legislation. The Associated Press has more on the presidential orders.